Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

well done lads mighty win yesterday , the only downside to it from a waterford point of view is there will be no stopping ballygunner when young spain starts playing senior

still buzzing from yesterday. What a wonderful bunch of players they are so talented and so well coached. The whole county needed this shot in the arm after the lows of the last few years. So many good players on this team it’s probably unfair to single some out but Spain is a delight to watch, the two points in the first half from the side line on one leg were unreal.

Could Paul Flynn go in with the senior management

Impressed with his demeanour on the line yesterday

ok thanks i naturally assumed he was dans young lad. the physicality of that waterford team was amazing , it was two waterford lads to four clare lads in every ruck yesterday with the waterford lads on top most of the time espically hugo quane, gavin o'shea and thomas kennady ,

a really good sign for the future

I agree with you 100% and when we were 10 points up with 3 minutes to go the bench should have been emptied to get a few more lads onto the pitch. But we all make mistakes and we move on.

Surprised to hear Cormac Spain is not going to school in De La Salle College. He would tear it up in the Harty Cup

Maybe he goes to Waterpark

The Gaelscoil, His parents moved down here from Offaly, I doubt playing Harty Cup hurling was on their radar when picking what school to go to.

don’t open that can of worms, shur half the team have Kilkenny blood of some sort !! They’d hardly come to us looking for hurlers though

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-40082030.html

A piece on barry coughlan back in the day

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He was born and lived in Monasterevin before the bypass, and so the summer of ’98 while his adopted county was ebullient over the exploits of Tony Browne and Paul Flynn in their best season since ’63, Coughlan himself was swept up in the magic of Micko and Glenn Ryan as Kildare made it to their first All-Ireland football final in 63 years; it’s one of most vivid sporting childhood memories, Ryan bringing the Delaney Cup into the local summer camp for Coughlan to gape at"

A great natural athlete for sure, but it was ballygunner/de la salle that made him a hurler .

Hugo is definetly a Lismore lad, his dad Emmett heavily involved with Lismore played senior with them for many years. I don’t know how you got it from that article that he’s based in Tipp

I didn't, i live in tipp,heard it down the grapevine , i didn't say he was from fethard , i said i believe he is based in fethard .

Joxer did the complete opposite of this though. He took over as minor manager having had no involvement with Deise Og. He remained as minor manager for a 3 year term. He did appoint 2 selectors who were with this group from U14 and it was certainly with the end goal of achieving big things with this years team.
The Deise Og revamp had an emphasis on giving the minor manager time to learn from mistakes and build each year. I don’t know who the next minor manager will be, but I imagine they’ll be given a 2 year term with the possibility of a 3rd year. Maybe they’ll be able to go close with the U15 group that is coming through. I don’t think expectations are high for next year so a number of current U15’s could be blooded potentially. It will be an important appointment in terms of building on this years success.

I flagged this here a while ago that Paul Flynn would be a good fella to get involved in the senior team, maybe not as the manager but he obviously offers something as a selector. We've had Eoin Kelly in as forwards coach for a few years and what has he contributed? We have a crop of young forwards in the Fitzgeralds, Reuben Halloran and hopefully in a few years a handful from this minor team and based on what has happened to the likes of Dessie(feel bad in singling him out but his drop in form has been remarkable) in the last 2 years I'm not sure I want Eoin Kelly anywhere near them!

Paul Flynn has 3 all-ireland wins(Sean Powers minor and U21 teams and 1 now with Joxers) as a selector and one defeat in a final(Sean Power camogie), the likes of Bennett & Curran on the minor & U21 team won awards, Beth Carton won player of the year and Spain more than likely will get minor player of the year. Is it a coincidence that one of the most naturally gifted forwards of all time has been involved with teams as a selector and the attacking players on those teams are winning awards when he is there??

Not a ticket to be had for a camogie Q/F. Crazy! There won’t be anyone other than family members, officers of each board and maybe a few sponsors there for each time.

I stand corrected, I had thought he was in with Sean Power from the start.

That's a good point. Who knows maybe he has been asked and realised the managers style is not something he can work with whether personality wise or tactically or maybe he was never asked?!? It's inevitable Joxer will work his way in to the senior job so he might want to keep that backroom team together and maybe Paul will be better off going that route rather than trying to persuade any other managers to alter their own pre-determined style.